They presented him a chest containing five hundred ounces of silver and said that the entire resources of the community were at his disposal.

After an hour the collection bag contains almost eight ounces of water.

The cargo was particularly valuable because it contained several hundred ounces of musk.

Through 2008, Krugerrand coins containing 46 million ounces of gold have been sold.

Meridian arrived here last year after buying a $320 million, 543-acre site, which it estimates contains three million ounces of gold.

A heart-healthy diet should contain no more than 6 ounces of cooked lean meat a day.

The small package, containing 1.7 ounces, is easy to polish off.

Some coffee cans contain 13 ounces and others 500 grams, for example.

Units of weight include the pound (453.6 grams), which contains 16 ounces.

The mines could contain as much as a billion ounces of silver.